Chapter 3
Pup den
It was so fast that I couldn't process what was going on. The little black shape was Nico. He had leaped and his teeth made contact with Tigerblaze's ear. Tigerblaze shook his head around, growling, trying to detach Nico. He only let go when Tigerblaze almost pierced his body with a stone on the roof of the cave. "Nobody messes with my sister or my mother!" Nico scared me, I wasn't afraid of him but for him. If Tigerblaze wanted to he could kill Nico with one swipe of his mighty paw. I walked over to Nico to try to calm him down. I put my tail on his back, he was shaking not out of fear but of fury. A few seconds after I touched him, he calmed down. I looked back up to Tigerblaze to see the whole left side of his face was red with blood, Nico made it to were Tigerblaze no longer had a scared ear but no ear what's so ever. Tigerblaze turned to leave the den. "That mutt better pray to the great wolves that I'm not his teacher," he huffed as he lumbered out. "You shouldn't have done that Nico." My father startled me, I didn't realize he was still in the den. "He was simply protecting his sister," said my mother. "I understand," he said "but Tigerblaze isn't the best wolf to have as an enemy." My mother didn't say anything as she bent down to clean Tigerblaze's blood off Nico's pelt, but he just bolted away,clearly upset that his father didn't support his victory. My mother moved towards him but I put my tail up to stop her, I remembered how I calmed him after the attack on Tigerblaze so I figured that I could do it again. I walked over and laid next to him. I'm a bit bigger than my brother so I looked older. "Thanks for standing up for me Nico." I was attempting to calm him down so he wouldn't be upset. "What is it with adults, you do something wrong and they cuff your ears, you do something right and they find something wrong." I couldn't answer his question, I did not understand myself. I started to clean off the blood and he allowed me to. When I was done I put my muzzle on his back and started singing a lullaby that I had never heard yet I was able to sing it line for line. " Earth, wind, fire, and air, everlasting war there's no winner there. Forever they will fight, forever the sun will rise, forever the moon will phase, forever, forever I will be there." I could feel Nico's chest rise and fall in a deep sleep. I didn't want to disturb him so I slept by his side that night.